A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.

I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.

Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves.

Friendship requires great communication.

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.